'Allied' Teaser: Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard Are Spies in Love and War

Brad Pitt already found love amid murder and mayhem in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the 2005 movie about husband and wife assassins, costarring future wife Angelina Jolie. He’ll again be struck by cupid’s bow during conflict, this time opposite Marion Cotillard, in Allied. The film has released its glamorous first teaser above.

Reportedly based on a true story, Allied tells the story of Max Vatan (Pitt), a killer spy who, while on a mission to eliminate a German official in Casablanca during World War II, meets and soon swoons over Marianne Beausejour (Cotillard), a French agent assigned to complete the same assignment. Their romance leads to marriage, and then to kids, but from the looks of this first sneak peek, all is not happily-ever-after for these two spies.

Given that it’s directed by Robert Zemeckis, whose filmmography includes the Back to the Future trilogy, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away, Allied should, if nothing else, be an aesthetically accomplished work — and one that, thankfully, is devoid of the gimmicky, in-your-face CGI that has become the filmmaker’s recent stock-and-trade (The Polar Express, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, and last year’s The Walk). His latest film hits theaters on Nov. 23, and you can get your first taste of its wartime action and amour via the teaser above.